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KaiserPro
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KaiserPro
2mo ago
> the UK needs to build significant stock in social housing YES. I think this would solve a number of problems, especially if they were built well and were built for a mix of sizes, family up to old people studio apartment
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2mo ago
Dutch politics is very very different from the UK. There is no concept of working together for the country in the UK. its party first, stab your leader and take their spot. The issue in the UK is that living standards have been dropping, or
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2mo ago
> Can he crowdsource this to offset his cost probably but the important thing is that you can't spend that much money (well compared to the USA) for a by-election the maximum you can spend is 180k (if youre a member of a national pa
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2mo ago
you're gonna have to expain that to me. so cheaper 'leccy prices are bad? or that this upfront cost to get batteries installed are bad? even though long term costs will be dropping? I mean whats the cost of 30% of 500k batteries c
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2mo ago
but you're assuming that work provides parking. Its not a given, plus whats in it for the drivers? plug my car in, it might be full, it might be empty, either way its racking up the charge cycles for no direct benefit for me. Batteries
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2mo ago
although as of today, python-trixie has three CVEs, two of which are perl
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2mo ago
I have never done improv, but as the americans say I was a "theatre kid". This means I was swirled around in the world of people who do random noisy shit all the time. Whilst I didn't do improv, Improv happened to me. When I
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2mo ago
Yes AI can help, especially in perhaps the "easy" OCR. but where that hard bit comes is where stuff is missing, or the signal is really rather low. Its also new, or likely new to human knowledge which means that LLMs are not much
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2mo ago
I will preface this with I am very supportive of time nerdery. I am thrilled that this person is build and documenting that build. I will now commence shitposting, so please look away now. Booo use a pendulum like a real time lord: https
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2mo ago
so s/bookworm/trixie/g didn't work then? Yes, this is mostly a joke, I am able to understand the difference between base distros.
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2mo ago
My local coop (I will not share the articles, because doxing) caught someone trying to smuggle >£300 of stuff out of the store. its a tiny store, maybe medium cornershop sized. at the start of the year, I personally saw 4 shop liftings h
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2mo ago
THe one of the face is to ID you, and the one in the barcode area is to work out if you've slapped a sticker for 1kg potatoes on a packet of 1kg of meat. The face one is to show you that you're on camera, the other one is to detec
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2mo ago
> but that is most certainly not the case Indeed, this is not the case in the UK. Its too fucking expensive, and the paper work to approve that is too fucking hard. Most of the time the state will request search logs from google instead.
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2mo ago
A standard STi clinic should have you covered. They should do the full pipecleaner wee and blood check
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2mo ago
> "Hate" Speech laws are a blanked go to jail card You're confusing communications act with hate speech, which are different. Also the EU is civil code, which does law _very differently_ Also can you point to someone who h
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2mo ago
> I could literally be arrested for what I said for what you said? no. for what you write? very unlikley. >Someone literally got arrested for buying a baseball bat couple days ago... I see you follow Tommy robinson. Right so the point
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2mo ago
> No "just" scared to open my mouth or defend myself or family with the little to none legal weaponary Bitch please. Firstly the _victim_ was foreign not the attacker. second, you are well within your rights to use reasonable f
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2mo ago
> I think getting arrested over online posts Online posts for _what_ though? > buying a baseball bat or butter knife Those are weapons, so long as you have a legitimate use for them, jobs a goodun. But more importanly anything in comm
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2mo ago
> Give families tools and information to do so. The problem is, agreement on those tools is hard to find. "I want to be able to pen my kid into a digital walled garden, so that they cannot see $bad stuff until the right age" th
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2mo ago
The nuance here is that only the state can deanonymise you[1], in the USA you can just pay a data broker. Sure the UK is the boogeyman here, but the reason why the federal government isn't making a fuss is because they already have the
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2mo ago
UK person here, and someone who has been lobbied and lobbied the government on tech regulations. firstly the amount of money that the "UK lobby" are pushing is a drop of sand in the ocean.[1] secondly, and most importantly, the US
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2mo ago
100% "which $generic_street_name? the one near covent garden, or the one near Bow?" saves both time and money
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2mo ago
The point of the test is that you know how to traverse london, and you also know and have a feel for patterns in traffic. In the same way that you have code smell. Granted, some use GPS, but most only really use it for pickup
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2mo ago
> I am glad Uber plowed through various stupid regulations What like safety checks? London had a huge minicab system, which is very much not knowledge based. Addison lee also had internet booking of cabs way before uber, but with the adv
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2mo ago
I grew up near a place that still had a common, the list of bylaws was massive. I think it was >40 and was prominently displayed on the entrance. The thing is, like most commons, the land was maybe not directly owned, but there was a man
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2mo ago
Looking at whats happening in europe, thats not a barrier. all it takes is a few hundred euros, some time on a dipshit forum and you have a willing gopher who'll go to a given location and run an unspecified payload.
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2mo ago
Nooooope nope nope. An entire class of controller with really shit security now (as in scanning a network with PLC controllers has a non-trivial chance of rebooting or freezing any number of devices on the network) trained to just plug USB
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2mo ago
In the UK as weaving was mechanised it lead to huge upheavals and only narrowly avoided civil war. It changed the face of the country completely.
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I know that, but given that tungsten demand is ~80-90% civilian, ie depends on how well the economy is doing, a 4% demand increase is pretty within spec. The bigger thing here is china has restricted export to something like 14 companies. s
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> Ukraine war isn't a one sided affair Agreed. > a perma-militarized frontier state dependent on EU doesn't meet their interests at all. Also agreed. I think the point I want to make is that a lot of the EU realise that its
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